E.J. McAdams

Appears in: Poets


E.J. McAdams is a poet, artist, and collaborator who lives in Harlem.  He explores language and mark-making in the urban environment using procedures and improvisation with found and natural materials.  One of his text-collages was included in the mail art exhibit “Focus Latin America: Art Is Our Last Hope” at Phoenix Art Museum.  An ongoing series TRANSECTs was featured at The Volta and About Place Journal, and published as a chapbook by Sona Books. He was a founding board member of the interdisciplinary Laboratory of Art Nature and Dance (iLAND) from 2004-14 and curated the Social-Environmental-Aesthetics (SEA) reading series at Exit Art that featured poets, visual artists and activists in conversation from 2009-11.

Publications: 

Last, BlazeVOX [books], forthcoming September 1, 2023. 

Middle Voice, Dusie Kollectiv, 2020.

Close-range Divinties, Shirt Pocket Press, 2019. Editor’s Choice Award.